Cygnets on the way!

After a barren 2016, Longboat swans Susie and Sully are expecting cygnets at the beginning of May.

By Katie Johns
| 6:00 a.m. April 12, 2017

Susie and Sully are currently nesting on the Harbourside Golf Course. Photo courtesy of David Novak.

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Resident Longboat Key swans Susie and Sully are nesting on the Harbourside Golf Course, a sure sign of spring. Baby swans, or cygnets, hatch about 35 days after the beginning of incubation, usually around the first of May. Last year, the pair cared for three eggs but after bad weather flooded the nest several times, there were no hatchlings, David Novak, Longboat Key’s unofficial swan keeper, shared.